Perry found himself on the way once again to help someone who was in need of a good defense attorney. He had decided many years ago that this was his life's calling and had never looked back. After years of hard work and working side by side with Della he had fallen in love and now had a family a home and a mortgage. With all the changes he was a happy man. But this case was the most important case to him that he had ever worked on. Someone had murdered the two men that they knew was responsible for the kidnapping of Sally.
He knew that whoever had murdered them knew a few facts. Whoever had murdered them knew that they were up at the cabin. The cabin had not been used since Sally 's parents had passed away. They had to have first hand knowledge of at least one of the men, because the cabin's location made it impossible for a passer by to see them. He was sure that whoever it was therefore had to have something to do with the kidnapping.
What frightened Perry the most was that there was still a kidnapper out there. To top it off that kidnapper was a murderer also. He feared that his family was in grave danger and wanted to get back to his home as soon as possible.
Perry arrived at the local police station and found his friend Jim Burns sitting there in a cell by himself. As he spoke to him he learned that Jim too had seen a black car on the roadway the day Sally was kidnapped. He thought that they were related to Sally's mother and father and had not noticed the license plate number.
The next morning was going to be the bail hearing for Jim and Perry and Della would be there. Perry left for home and thought about Della. He was sure that she was busy in the study working on his briefs and as he called her he was relieved to hear her voice. She was indeed working on the briefs for the morning. Sally had gone to bed early, as she was very tired.
Perry Jr had been a little fussy and was now sleeping quietly in his basinet in the office with her. Perry was proud of his little family. He was now on a mission. He was going to find out who the other kidnapper was and the murderer. All he knew was that he was a man in a black car.
Perry picked up his phone once again and called his friend Paul. He asked him to get right on looking into who that man was that both Jim and Sally had said that was at the cabin. "Anything you and your men can find out Paul will be helpful."
Paul had never seen his friend so upset about a case. He knew that this case was getting to personal and hoped that Perry could remain objective. He contacted a couple of his men and promised that he would be starting on his investigation right away. He looked at his watch and saw that it was now nine thirty , a great time to start an investigation.
As Perry arrived home he was met by Della. He went over the work that she had done and as usual found the work without error. They put Perry Jr into his upstairs basinet and climbed into bed. It was already ten thirty at night and there was school for Sally in the morning if she felt up to it and court at ten. The courthouse was almost an hour away from their home, so they would have to leave as soon as they dropped Sally off.
The case that the prosecution had against Jim Burns was a weak one. They had no fingerprints of him anywhere in the home and no witnesses. Also, Perry had two people that had seen another car in the driveway that day. The charges were accepted and for once Perry's client was released form jail. But, he was subject to arrest at any other time if the police learned something, so Jim Burns was not a free man.
The cabin had not been used in over a year and the dust had been everywhere. Perry wanted to find if any of the fingerprints that had been found in the cabin had been identified. There were of course, the fingerprints of the murder victims and Sally, but there was one more set discovered. The prints belonged to an unknown person.
The police had found tire tracks in the driveway. One of the tire tracks belonged to the kidnappers car. But the other tire tracks belonged to a larger model car with sixteen inch tires. It was the opinion of the police that the tracks were no more than three days old. That dated the tracks to the time that Sally had been there with the kidnappers.
There were several beer cans left around also. Each can was brought to the lab for possible dna. Along with that there were several cigarette butts. Perry knew that Larry did not smoke and Sally said that her Uncle Steve didn't smoke either. Those went to the lab for dna samples also. All this evidence would take months for the police to get the results and Perry was very concerned for his family's safety. He could not wait for the results of those tests.
Sally was glad to be back at her home, but being at the cabin had brought back memories of her other mom and dad. She missed them very much and had taken a picture of three of them off of her bureau at the cabin. She wanted to put the picture up in her room, but didn't know what her new mommy and daddy would think. A tear ran down her eyes as she kissed the picture and hid it from everyone under her mattress. Someday she would tell everyone about the picture, but she didn't think that this was a good time to show the picture not just yet.
Bob Martin was now a wanted man and he knew it. He was so stupid. He had seen Sally and not thought anything about it. Steve was the little girl's uncle. He was a jerk sometimes, but he didn't think anything of her. Steve and Larry had told him that Michelle was coming up and they were going to have a little family get together. The guy owned him over five hundred dollars and he had wanted the money. They had argued at the cabin and he was sure that Sally heard them. Now the two men were dead . He had nothing to do with that but he knew that he was probably going to jail anyways. He couldn't afford an expensive lawyer like Jim Burns had gotten. 'What to do' he thought.
